Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Fixing or changing a file association is very simple. For example, if you accidentally associated .pdf files with a program that cannot open them, you can change the association back to Adobe Reader (or another PDF reader that can open them). Simply follow this procedure:

Right-click the respective file, for example a PDF file.

Select > Open With from the right-click menu.

The > Open with window will open and now you can either pick a program from the list of >Other Programs or click the > Browse… button and find the application you want to open this file type with.

If you want to make the change permanent, check the box next to > Always use the selected program to open this kind of file.

Finally, click > OK and, given you checked the respective box, all your PDF files should now open with the program of your choice.

If you want to get an overview of all file associations on your computer or change several at once, you can go to > Start > Control Panel > Programs > Default Programs > Associate a file type or protocol with a specific program. Here you can browse all file types. Click on > Change program…to pick a new tool to open the respective file type.

Note that .lnk files should not be associated with a specific program (unknown application) and hence you cannot fix a broken .lnk file association this way!

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Sometimes Windows 7 OS may not read your correct user profile properly, instead, load with temporary profile which will look completely different. If you are not aware of temp profile or missed to see the pop-up message at bottom right side of the screen, then really you will be surprised to see completely different and new desktop without your files,folders,shortcut icons and any customized settings.This guide shows how to fix temporary profile issue on Windows 7.

“You have been logged on with Temporary profile”- that’s the famous message from Windows 7. Even though this article was published back in 2010, I’m rewriting this again on August 2012 with more information, inputs, related links and the experience I had on this issue for last two years in domain and workgroup environment.

Why Windows 7 Loads with Temporary Profile?

Obviously, your profile (the files and folders located under C:\Users\user_name) is corrupted. There is another chance which is a delay in reading your profile files due to Antivirus scan or something else during boot up. Usually after typing your user name and password Windows tries to read and load your profile, if it gets corrupted or delay in reading, Windows will load with temp profile to give temporary access on computer.

How to Fix Windows 7 Temp Issue on Workgroup and Domain Environment

1) Before do anything, restart the computer 2 or 3 times to see whether it’s going back to your old correct profile. Go to next step if this doesn’t work.

2) Rename the temp profile registry and revert back the old registry settings for the correct profile. This method works most of the time for me in Workgroup and domain environment.

d) You will see similar keys under profile list, but one with .bak, as shown below.

e) The key with .bak is for the correct old profile. Currently your Windows 7 computer logged in with fresh (temporary) profile with same key. So, rename the new profile key ( which is not having.bak) and remove .bak from correct profile key. See below.

f) That’s it. Log off and log in (or restart) with your user name and password. You must get your correct profile with icons and profile settings back in Windows 7, if you are lucky enough.

Still if Windows 7 computer loads with temporary profile and creates a registry key with .bak, that means user profile is really corrupted and Operating System is not reading it properly.

3) Few times this method worked for me, repair the corrupted files. Usually the corrupted ‘Ntuser’ files cause this issue. So, run the check disk for partition which is having user profile.

After restarting for check disk, if you see corrupted entries and repairing process inside your user profile folder, then you can hope for good news here. If it finds and repairs any files especially Ntuser files, you may get your old Windows 7 profile back.

If above steps do not help you out, then we need to create a new profile with new user name.

Basically we need to create a new user account, login with it and transfer the data from old user profile to new user profile. It is easy in workgroup environment as you can create new user name locally, but it is tricky in domain environment. Because, the existing user account is already there on domain server and nothing wrong with it. Also, creating a new different domain user account will cause issues on corporate emails, domain groups membership and shared permissions.

So, we need to treat both cases separately.

4)Create new user name in non domain (workgroup environment) from control panel or computer management. Make sure to add the new user to administrators group.

Login with new user name and start copying your old data from old profile. I normally copy below data,

Since we can’t delete and create new domain user account for this purpose, we will play around with client computer only. Let’s completely remove the user profile and re create again.

Copy the important user data (a to d in above step 4) or entire folders from corrupted profile to new location. Double-check that you have copied all required folders and files from old profile, because we are going to delete it now.

Go to Advanced settings of System as shown below, click onSettings (user profiles), select the corrupted user profile which is not loading properly in Windows 7, then press Delete button. Delete button will be enabled only if you login with different user account.

This will remove the entire user profile and related user SID from computer including the registery keys we talked about earlier. You can cross check the proper removal of user account (SID) by checking the C:\Users folder. Once it is remove properly, restart the computer and login with same user name (which was not loading earlier). The computer should create a new user profile as this is the first time the user is logging on. You need to copy back your old important data to new profile and set email outlook etc..if required.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Ankit Fadia (born 1985) is an Indian independent computer
security consultant and author. Fadia describes himself as an ethical hacker,
and has written several books on the topic of computer security.(line copy
pasted from wikipedia.org). He stared web-site at age of 14,
hackingtruths.box.sk. and also at age of 15, ankit fadia written book on
ethical hacking made him youngest author to be published by macmillan, india.
Today we are providing you this collection which contains a number of hacking
tutorial by Ankit Fadia. So read and learn hacking. enjoy .!

Saturday, February 1, 2014

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair is a powerful tool to repair corrupt or damaged Outlook PST files. The software helps you accomplish complex PST recoveries in easy way when Outlook's built-in 'scanpst.exe' fails to fix issues, such as header damage, file oversize, or malware attack. In addition to repairing PST files, the software allows users to recover information that has disappeared from their Inbox or even the Deleted Items folder.

This application program allows you to choose particular items you want to save coming from fixed items’ list. With the help of this software package you are able to seek needed subject, date, recipient or sender. As soon as the process gets completed, the PST file recovered is effortlessly imported to your Outlook account.

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Unfortunately if you dont own a Smart phone then you might not be able
to use whatsapp. But don't worry today we Will learn How to use WhatsApp On PC as well. You can Use it On both Windows and Mac.

To Run Whatsapp on Pc, We will Require Android Emulator, Android Emulator Helps us to Run Whatsapp on PC.

Step 1: Youwave And Bluestack Are the Two Android Emulator which enable us to Run Whatsapp or any other Android App on PC.http://www.bluestacks.com/

Step 2: If you Go for Bluestack then Download and install it, then run
the Bluestack and Click on " Apps " Then Click on the Tab " Social "
and select " Whatsapp " and Install it.

Step 3: If you Go for Youwave then just download and install.Now download Whatsapp.apk and move the downloaded file to PC directory.To Check PC's Directory, Open Youwave click on help > Instruction. Now move your

whatsapp.apk file in to that directory . Then Click on View then Redraw Icons.

Step 3:If you Go for Youwave which I am Using On My PC then just download and install.

Now download Whatsapp.apk and move the downloaded file to PC directory.

To Check PC's Directory, Open Youwave click on help > Instruction. Now move your

whatsapp.apk file in to that directory . Then Click on View then Redraw Icons.

- See more at: http://www.geekofreak.com/2013/04/how-to-use-whatsapp-on-pc-for-windows.html#sthash.Xq8TtGED.dpuf

Step 3:If you Go for Youwave which I am Using On My PC then just download and install.

Now download Whatsapp.apk and move the downloaded file to PC directory.

To Check PC's Directory, Open Youwave click on help > Instruction. Now move your

whatsapp.apk file in to that directory . Then Click on View then Redraw Icons.

- See more at: http://www.geekofreak.com/2013/04/how-to-use-whatsapp-on-pc-for-windows.html#sthash.Xq8TtGED.dpuf

Step 3:If you Go for Youwave which I am Using On My PC then just download and install.

Now download Whatsapp.apk and move the downloaded file to PC directory.

To Check PC's Directory, Open Youwave click on help > Instruction. Now move your

whatsapp.apk file in to that directory . Then Click on View then Redraw Icons.

- See more at: http://www.geekofreak.com/2013/04/how-to-use-whatsapp-on-pc-for-windows.html#sthash.Xq8TtGED.dpuf

Now You will see Whatsapp icon .

After Installing Whatsapp on Youwave or Bluestack you have to enter
Mobile number which is not used earlier For Whatsapp account. Then they
will take 5 Minutes to verify and will send you Code. Enter that code and thats all.